Associate Chair of the Department of Mathematics

Professor of Physics (Secondary)

String theory is hoped to provide a theory of all fundamental physics encompassing both quantum mechanics and general relativity. String theories naturally live in a large number of dimensions and... full profile »

Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics

Office: 013 Physics, Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 660-2872

Rann Bar-On specializes in early undergraduate mathematics education. For the past decade, he has taught and supervised Math 105L and 106L, entry-level calculus courses at Duke. He has edited the lab... full profile »

Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics

Assistant Director of Curricular Engagement of the Information Initiative at Duke

I work in computational topology, which for me means adapting and using tools from algebraic topology in order to study noisy and high-dimensional datasets arising from a variety of scientific... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

Professor Bray uses differential geometry to understand general relativity, and general relativity to motivate interesting problems in differential geometry. In 2001, he published his proof of the... full profile »

Philip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics

Professor in the Department of Mathematics

Office: 103 Physics Bldg, West Campus, Durham, NC 27708

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-12:00PM, and by appointment

Phone: (919) 660-2817

I'm interested in the geometry of partial differential equations (as always), but, more specifically, I have been thinking about conservation laws for PDE, Finsler geometry, calibrations, holonomy,... full profile »

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Joint)

Professor of Mathematics (Joint)

Professor of Physics (Secondary)

Robert Calderbank is Director of the Information Initiative at Duke University, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. He joined Duke in 2010, completed a... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

I am a topologist whose main interests include the study of the topology of complex algebraic varieties (i.e. spaces that are the set of common zeros of a finite number of complex polynomials). What... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

Office: 109 Physic Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 660-2845

Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation,... full profile »

Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics

Professor in the Department of Mathematics

Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Secondary)

Mathematical physiology. My main research interest is the application of mathematics to biological systems, specifically, mathematical modeling of renal physiology. Current projects involve (... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

Professor Layton is modeling renal function at the level of the nephron (the functional unit of the kidney) and at the level of nephron populations. In particular, he is studying tubuloglomerular... full profile »

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Associate Professor of Chemistry (Secondary)

Associate Professor of Physics (Secondary)

Jianfeng Lu is an applied mathematician interested in mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and other... full profile »

Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics

Professor of Mathematics

Chair of the Department of Mathematics

Professor of Statistical Science (Secondary)

Jonathan Christopher Mattingly grew up in Charlotte, NC where he attended Irwin Ave elementary and Charlotte Country Day. He graduated from the NC School of Science and Mathematics and received a... full profile »

Lecturing Fellow* of Mathematics

Professor of Mathematics

Professor in the Department of Statistical Science (Secondary)

Office: 209 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 660-2846

Professor Miller's research centers around problems in geometry, algebra, topology, combinatorics, statistics, probability, and computation originating in mathematics and the sciences, including... full profile »

Associate Professor of Mathematics

I study partial differential equations, which have been used to model many phenomena in the natural sciences and engineering. In many cases, the parameters for such equations are known only... full profile »

Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics

Professor of Mathematics

Office: 219 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Office Hours: T, 1:30-3:00W, 12:00-2:30

Phone: (919) 660-2838

In [1] an old question of de Rham about the topological classification of rotations of Euclidean space was largely answered in the affirmative.
Methods of algebraic K-theory were used to study... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

Bass Fellow

Professor Reed is engaged in a large number of research projects that involve the application of mathematics to questions in physiology and medicine. He also works on questions in analysis that are... full profile »

A central theme in mathematics has been the interplay between topology and analysis. One subject here is the representation of topological invariants (such as cohomology) by analytic means (such as... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

I work on the geometry and arithmetic of figures defined by polynomial equations. I am especially interested in the geometry of algebraic curves, surfaces, threefolds and fourfolds over the complex... full profile »

Professor of Mathematics

The focus of Professor Stern's research is the study of analytic problems arising in geometry, topology, and physics. In recent work, Professor Stern has studied analytical, geometric, and... full profile »

William W. Elliott Assistant Research Professor

Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics

Professor of Mathematics

Integrable Systems
Integrable systems mostly consist of families of nonlinear differential equations (ordinary and partial) that can be solved (integrated) in explicit ways through the general... full profile »

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (Secondary)

My primary area of expertise is the solution of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations for models of physical systems. Using asymptotics along with a mixture of other applied... full profile »